Download or read book John Silence Psychical Investigator Book One of Two written by Algernon Blackwood and published by Borgo Press. This book was released on 2002-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. John Silence treats call it a sicknesses of the spirit. His patients require the skills not merely of a physician, but of a spiritual detective; a Sherlock Holmes of the arcane; an M. Pirot of the outre. These are the annals of his most mind-numbing cases. Volume I: A Psychical Invasion

Download or read book John Silence Psychical Investigator Book Two of Two written by Algernon Blackwood and published by Borgo Press. This book was released on 2002-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. John Silence treats call it a sicknesses of the spirit. His patients require the skills not merely of a physician, but of a spiritual detective; a Sherlock Holmes of the arcane; an M. Pirot of the outre. These are the annals of his most mind-numbing cases. Vol. II Ancient Sorceries.

Download or read book John Silence Physician Extraordinary written by Algernon Blackwood and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-04 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "John Silence, Physician Extraordinary" by Algernon Blackwood. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Download or read book Three John Silence Stories written by Algernon Blackwood and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-04-20 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection includes all five stories featuring Blackwood's psychic detective, John Silence, M.D., and--except for the brief "A Victim of Higher Space," a mere bagatelle--each of the tales is compelling in the way all good Blackwood is compelling: each features a leisurely exposition followed by a slow series of incremental complications which both inform and disarm the mesmerized reader until he is prepared for the well-executed conclusion. The two best stories included here are the much anthologized "Ancient Sorceries" and "Secret Worship." If you do not know them already, you should certainly read them, even if you're not a great fan of terror tales. The other three stories, however, are also effective and unique. "A Psychical Invasion" is unusual in that, drawing upon the notion that dogs resist ghostly phenomena and cats explore them, it allots 8,000 words (roughly 40% of the story) to a detailed description of the behaviors of one cat and one dog on one particular night. I know this sounds boring, but it isn't. (I became quite absorbed in interpreting the animals' actions, and, while I was doing so, I had no doubt whatsoever that Blackwood's ghost was real.) "The Nemesis of Fire" begins conventionally with a local haunting on the grounds of an English Country estate, but--after a few twists and turns--concludes with a battle against the darkest magic of Ancient Egypt. "The Camp of the Dog" realistically creates the atmosphere of a camping trip to a remote Northern island, its comforts and its terrors (Blackwood was an avid camper), but its most notable feature is the way it resolves the problem of a rather decent sort of werewolf chap who is trapped by his sincere repressed love into a psychic spiral of lustful--and hairy--transformations. All of these stories are worth reading. Oh, and--by the way--since you've gone this far, you might as well read "A Victim of Higher Space" too. It is short, with one or two good laughs in it, and contains a really cool description of John Silence's consulting room, including his little tricks and gadgets.

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Download or read book Silent Witness written by Nancy Myer and published by St Martins Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the true story of a psychic detective who emerged from her suburban homemaker life when she realized that her powers could help police track down criminals and describes the cases in which she played a pivotal role. Reprint.

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Download or read book The DI Gravel Investigations Books One to Four written by John Nicholl and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 1084 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four psychological crime thrillers featuring a Welsh police detective facing off against the darkest minds while trying to hold on to his own sanity . . . Portraits of the Dead Emma had no idea he’d hidden in the Victorian wardrobe to the side of her bed, watched as she drifted into fitful sleep, pushed the doors open and crept towards her in the night. Now DI Gravel is racing against time to find the college student abducted and imprisoned by a sadistic killer who’s already killed five victims. Before I Met Him When Rebecca’s childhood abuser avoids prosecution, it sets her on a path to revenge—and now, at twenty-three, she’s handing out retribution on any man who preys on the innocent. Posing as a child online she sets her trap, luring one sex offender after another to their deaths. When a severed head washes up on a windswept beach, DI Gravel is called to investigate in this“stunning” novel of victim turned vigilante (Book Reader Magazine). Previously published as A Mind to Kill A Cold Cold Heart When DI Gravel’s daughter Emily accepts a job working for a solicitor, neither realizes that she will soon be entangled in—and endangered by—her father’s latest case: a search for an obsessive serial killer hiding in plain sight . . . Every Move You Make Unaware that a predatory psychopath has placed cameras in her home, Mia is terrified when she starts receiving untraceable emails with photos of her and her four-year-old daughter, which demand that Mia perform outlandish tasks and threaten dire consequences if she refuses. She’s advised to reach out to DI Gravel—but he’ll have to battle his own demons as he tries to catch her tormentor, in this “insidious and very creepy” psychological thriller (Patricia Dixon,author of Over My Shoulder).

Download or read book Dark Detectives An Anthology of Supernatural Mysteries written by Stephen Jones and published by Titan Books (US, CA). This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CRIMES OF TERROR AND DARKNESS In the battle between good and evil, the supernatural investigators form the first line of defense against the unexplainable. Here are eighteen pulse-pounding tales featuring uncanny sleuths battling against the weird, written by Clive Barker R. Chetwynd-Hayes Basil Copper Neil Gaiman William Hope Hodgson Brian Lumley Brian Mooney Kim Newman Jay Russell Peter Tremayne Manly Wade Wellman Featuring the entire ‘’Seven Stars” saga by Kim Newman, pitting the Diogenes Club against an occult object with the power to ultimately annihilate mankind!

Download or read book Formal Investigations Aesthetic Style in Late Victorian and Edwardian Detective Fiction written by Paul Fox and published by ibidem-Verlag / ibidem Press. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this revised and expanded volume explore a variety of structuring taxonomies, the relationships between the aesthetic forms, styles and methodologies of detective and crime fiction in the late-Victorian and Edwardian period. The influences on the artists in the genre are as varied as the interests of the period in scientific method, forensics, archaeology, aesthetics, medicine, and the paranormal. But the formalizing tendencies of investigative process remain, and it is this adherence, in artist and detective alike, to seeing crime and its resolution as a stylistic imposition of structure on disorder that is under examination.

Download or read book Bound to Please written by Michael Dirda and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2005 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A showcase of one hundred of the world's most significant books offers the author's introductory essays on such writers as James Boswell, Colette, and Joseph Roth, and includes explorations of a range of genres and specific works.

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Download or read book The Silent Patient written by Alex Michaelides and published by Celadon Books. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **THE INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** "An unforgettable—and Hollywood-bound—new thriller... A mix of Hitchcockian suspense, Agatha Christie plotting, and Greek tragedy." —Entertainment Weekly The Silent Patient is a shocking psychological thriller of a woman’s act of violence against her husband—and of the therapist obsessed with uncovering her motive. Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London’s most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel returns home late from a fashion shoot, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face, and then never speaks another word. Alicia’s refusal to talk, or give any kind of explanation, turns a domestic tragedy into something far grander, a mystery that captures the public imagination and casts Alicia into notoriety. The price of her art skyrockets, and she, the silent patient, is hidden away from the tabloids and spotlight at the Grove, a secure forensic unit in North London. Theo Faber is a criminal psychotherapist who has waited a long time for the opportunity to work with Alicia. His determination to get her to talk and unravel the mystery of why she shot her husband takes him down a twisting path into his own motivations—a search for the truth that threatens to consume him....